This is getting frustrating!

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Hold up.....you don't have all 12 in the same tub do you? Am I just reading that wrong?

No, they have their own tubs.

What has bred for you? The ball pythons, or the rats and mice?

Later,

George

6 out of 7 adult normal females, my pastel female (bred with the pastel male, but won't have anything to do with the cinny or spider...GRRR!), and all three morph males spider, cinny, and pastel have bred. Everyone has bred for me that is big enough except 1 normal female. I do still have a normal male adult, a 700g female, and an 1100g Black Pastel female that I have not attempted.

Oh, and the rats and mice will not STOP breeding, lol. I'm busting at the seams with them.

I have tired many different things with my balls, but some are just bad eaters. Some will take f/t, some won't. Some will eat every week, some every other week, and some like to take months off. That is one reason that I am selling all of my ball pythons, and switching to snakes that eat very well on f/t. It is just so frustrating when you breed your own rodents. You never know how many to breed because you can never determine which, or how many, balls are going to eat each week.

Good luck though.

I am afraid that I share alot of the same feelings with you, and it's possible that I may get rid of mine as well. There have been alot of good posts in this thread alone about methods of dealing with the bad eating habits of balls, but I'm not sure that I want to deal with a species that is knowingly going to be a problematic feeder. It takes me longer to feed my 14 balls than it does to feed 40 colubrids due to the "well I'll only prekill one rat and move from tub to tub to see if anyone wants it, then put a live rat in a couple of tubs and watch to make sure they eat it and not viceversa, then grab a mouse or two and see if the rat refusers will take them". With the colubrids you just count out how many feeder items you need for each one, total it up and thaw or kill all of them and chunk them in the appropriate tubs. I'm definately not hating on bp's because alot of the morphs are just stunning, but they are beginning to stress me out, and to know that this is considered "normal", makes it worse.